The first comprehensive introduction to cover the entire span of Kierkegaard’s authorship.

• Explores how the two strands of his writing—religious discourses and pseudonymous literary creations—influenced each other
• Accompanies the reader chronologically through all the philosopher’s major works, and integrates his writing into his biography
• Employs a unique “how to” approach to help the reader discover individual texts on their own and to help them closely examine Kierkegaard’s language
• Presents the literary strategies employed in Kierkegaard’s work to give the reader insight into subtext

• Preface 7
• Abbreviations 9
• chapter 1 Introduction: Reading Kierkegaard 12
• chapter 2 Either – Or and the First Upbuilding Discourses 29
• chapter 3 Repetition,Fear and Trembling ,and More Discourses 52
• chapter 4 Philosophical Fragments , The Concept of Anxiety , and Discourses 78
• chapter 5 Concluding Unscienti •c Postscript and Two Ages 106
• chapter 6 Works of Love,Discourses , and Other Writings 133
• chapter 7 The Sickness unto Death and Discourses 159
• chapter 8 Practice in Christianity , Discourses ,and the “Attack ” 180
• chapter 9 Looking Back and Looking Ahead 200
• Index 208